Hockey : session 4

Today was our last session for hockey this year 2016. But our coach Carly didn't come today, so Mr. Oglivie from LS1 took our hockey session today. We played this traffic light game, where the coach calls out all the colours. Green means go, red means stop, orange means you hit your ball from side to side with your hockey stick, silver means you have to travel REALLY fast with the ball, and purple means you have to go backwards. If you don't stop your ball on time or if you get caught by the sharks (sharks are the people that get out) then you are out. We also did relays where you had to go and zig-zag around the cones with the hockey ball and play a few games of hockey sorted into two teams. Our last session went very successfully and everyone had lots of good times.

Hockey: Session 3

Today was our third session for hockey. This time our coach Carly had a helper with her. We started with a game of hockey octopus. After a few rounds of that, we moved on to our challenges we did last Thursday like bouncing the hockey stick on our sticks for as long as we can and doing the most bounces on our hockey sticks. Lastly we were sorted out into two teams and played some real hockey games. It was really fun doing all these things in our hockey sessions.

Hockey - Session 3

Yesterday the year 8's did Hockey for Kiwi Sport.  We first practised dribbling the ball with our hockey stick and switched it between the people with the same hockey stick colour as us. Later on our coach called Carly told us to get into lines with the same stick colour. Next we played a game called Shark. You have to keep your ball safe from the other people and try and hit the other peoples ball out of the court so you can win and be the last girl/boy standing (or dribbling in this case). Lastly we to beat our score from last week when we bounced the hockey ball on our stick as many times as we can, and another challenge was when we had to bounce the ball on our stick for as long as we can without dropping the ball.

First Session - Hockey

Today for kiwi sport we did hockey with two of our new mentors. First we started off with a game called bull rush. Our mentor chose 3 people to go in the middle. Then our mentor called out something like "Run if you like food" and if you do, you try run to the other side without getting tagged. It was a great energiser to start off the session. Later one we learnt how to hold a hockey stick and to dribble the ball (also known as moving the ball from side to side). We just practised that plus running backwards and speeding while dribbling. A few minutes later when we got the hang of it we did more games to practice these skills like "Traffic Lights" and a real hockey game (kind of). We sadly didn't get any photos for our blog postbut we will try to get some for our next session next week.